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Monday's Sports Briefs

The Armstrong Atlantic men's basketball team will host Allen University tonight at 7 p.m. in Alumni Arena.

The Pirates are 2-3 on the season. Patrick Shokpeka leads the team in scoring with at 17.2 average.

Georgia Southern will also be home tonight, hosting Coastal Carolina at 7 p.m. in Hanner Field House. GSU is 3-7, and is led in scoring by Willie Powers (14.4 ppg).

Today's High School

basketball schedule

Girls basketball

Savannah Christian at Savannah Country Day, 6 p.m.

Johnson at St. Vincent's, 6 p.m.

Calvary Day at Portal, 6 p.m.

Richmond Hill at Effingham County, 6 p.m.

Bryan County at Claxton, 6 p.m.

Boys basketball

Savannah Christian at Savannah Country Day, 7:30

Windsor Forest at Benedictine, 7 p.m.

Calvary Day at Portal, 7:30

Richmond Hill at Effingham County, 7:30

Bryan County at Claxton, 7:30

SCAD rider wins

Cyclocross event

BEND, Ore. - Savannah College of Art and Design's Ryan Leech won the 2009 United States of America Cycling Cyclocross Division II individual national championship Sunday.

Leech, a graduate student majoring in industrial design, is a member of the SCAD Bike Club. He beat the 27-rider field with a time of 41:41.0, 25 seconds faster than Western Washington University's Steve Fisher.

Cyclocross is a form of bicycle racing. It consists of many laps of a short (1.5-2 miles) course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike while navigating the obstruction and remount in one motion.

For Leech, it's his second national title as he captured the men's 30-34 division title at the 2006 event in Providence, R.I.

Bulloch boys win,

girls fall to Briarwood

STATESBORO - The Bulloch Academy boys defeated Briarwood, 73-42, but the BA girls lost to Briarwood, 44-40, on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO - Two people familiar with the U.S. Olympic Committee's CEO search say one of six candidates is Joe Moglia, the chairman of Ameritrade who recently took a volunteer position as a leadership consultant in the Nebraska athletics department.

Other candidates are former baseball executive Sandy Alderson, current chief operating officer Norm Bellingham, former general counsel and interim CEO of the USOC, Scott Blackmun, Jet Set Sports president Mark Lewis and USA Swimming CEO Chuck Wielgus.

Two people familiar with the search gave The Associated Press the list. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the candidates' names are supposed to be confidential.

All candidates except Moglia were first reported by The Chicago Tribune.

The NFL said Monday it will salute Dawson by having him carry the Vince Lombardi Trophy to midfield and hand it off to commissioner Roger Goodell for the trophy presentation following the Super Bowl. The game is Feb. 7 at Land Shark Stadium in South Florida.

Jaguars avoid

another blackout

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Jaguars have avoided a blackout for the first time this season.

The Jaguars announced Monday that their home finale against the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night will be televised locally and in secondary markets. The small-market franchise had blacked out their previous nine home games, including two in the preseason.

A civic group called "Touchdown Jacksonville" began a ticket-selling campaign earlier this season, hoping to generate buzz locally and end talk about the team relocating or playing games in London or Orlando. One of the group's first goals was to help sell out the home finale.

The Jaguars have struggled to sell tickets in a sluggish economy. About 17,000 season-ticket holders decided not to renew in 2009.

Dallas game

stays on Sunday

NEW YORK - The Dallas-Washington matchup Dec. 27 will remain the NFL's Sunday night game even though NBC had the option to choose another one.

The league said Monday that the Denver-Philadelphia game that day will start at 4:15 p.m. EST instead of 1 p.m.

The league's flexible scheduling policy allows it to change the Sunday night game to select a better matchup starting in Week 11.

The game could have major playoff implications for the Cowboys, who are 8-5 before playing at the undefeated Saints on Saturday. The Redskins are 4-9.